Runway at Hamburg Airport to remain shut for month-long maintenance work

The runway 05/23 at Hamburg Airport will be undergoing maintenance throughout the upcoming weeks and is scheduled to close on May 30, 2023. The maintenance work is expected to take around a month during which a new top layer will be added. During this period, all flights will take off via runway 15/33, and passengers should anticipate service delays, the airport announced. In a statement about the project, Martin Borstelmann, the chief civil engineer, said: “The top surface layer of our runways has to be renewed at certain intervals. In this way, the runways remain safely usable for flight operations,